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Culinary Product Development Scientist-1400718
- IL-Glenview Description
Kraft Foods Group is one of
the most admired and largest food and beverage businesses in North America.
We’re also one of the largest worldwide among publicly traded consumer
packaged food and beverage companies, based on our 2012 combined net revenues
of $18.7 billion. We manufacture and
market food and beverage products, including convenient meals, Refreshment
beverages and coffee, cheese and other grocery products, primarily in the
United States and Canada, under a host of iconic brands. Our product categories
span breakfast, lunch and dinner meal occasions, both at home and in
foodservice locations. Our diverse brand
portfolio consists of many of the most popular food brands in North America,
Including three brands with annual net revenues exceeding $1 billion each – Kraft
cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats; and Maxwell
House coffees – plus over 20 brands with annual net revenues of between
$100 million and $1 billion each. In the United
States, based on dollar share in 2012, we hold the number one branded share
position in a majority of our 50 product categories, as well as in 18 of our
top 20 product categories. We hold the number two branded share position in
the other two product categories. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Description This position
offers the candidate an excellent opportunity to lead R&D Culinary
Development for Enhancers RDQI. Responsibilities include partnering with
Marketing & Sales to translate concepts and trends to benchtop
prototypes, monitoring and informing on key culinary trends, and networking
with suppliers to identify new commercially available ingredients for the
Enhancers business. The candidate will support early stage innovation
projects, develop gold standards, develop bench-top prototypes, produce
samples and attend consumer groups, and partner with developers to scale-up
prototypes. This individual must have a strong culinary background,
leadership skills, problem solving, and project management skills. The
candidate will have significant interaction and need to be able to work
across marketing teams, basic research, enabling technologies and external
suppliers. Responsibilities: ·
Partner with R&D to develop, commercialize and
launch new products, renovations, and quality improvements. ·
Translate new ideas into product protocepts
and prototypes by benchtop cooking and work with
suppliers to produce testable products for consumer feedback. ·
Develop gold standard product for production comparison
and ensure commercial product adherence to gold standard. ·
Understand ingredient costs with ability to adjust
formulas to meet product margins. ·
Keep abreast of culinary and ingredient trends,
presenting opportunities to R&D, Marketing and Sr. Management. ·
Network with external suppliers to identify and
evaluate commercially available ingredients. ·
Attend professional seminars to stay abreast of current
culinary trends. Qualifications
Required: ·
Culinary Degree ·
Excellence in culinary skills ·
Ability to write recipes and translate into formulas ·
4-5 years’ work related experience in either R&D or
the catering/restaurant industry ·
Basic excel skills ·
Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage
complexity with a high degree of ambiguity ·
Demonstrated ability to work in project teams. ·
Ability to manage projects with a high degree of
autonomy ·
Excellent verbal and written communication skills Desired ·
BS in Food Science or R&D food industry experience
is desired. Kraft Foods is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Kraft recruits qualified
applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or
national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic
information, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, marital
status or citizenship status. Job
: Research & Development Primary Location
: NA-US-IL-Glenview |
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